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Originally released as a motion picture in 1961. Based on the play by Shelagh Delaney. Essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe in container. Features: new interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin; audio interview with director and co-screenwriter Tony Richardson from the 1962 Cannes Film Festival; excerpt from a 1960 television interview with playwright Shelagh Delaney; interview from 1998 with cinematographer Walter Lassally; "Remaking British theater : Joan Littlewood and A taste of honey," a new piece about the film's stage origins, featuring an interview with theater scholar Kate Dorney; Momma don't allow (1956), a Free Cinema short film by Richardson, shot by Lassally.